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HELLO CALABAR! I’m in Calabar for a bit! My hotel is super nice! And I already met one of my blog readers!!! Hi Calabar Sugabelly followers!!! Your home city rocks!! Migwo?... Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0 Category: Art Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:54:11 AM
THE CHILDREN OF “BAYAN LAYI” As part of my five-week blogathon on the five shortlisted stories in the 2013 Caine Prize, I present some thoughts on the first story: Elnathan John’s Bayan Layi, first published at http://www.percont... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:12:31 PM
THE 2013 CAINE PRIZE SHORTLIST Out of this year’s five shortlisted stories for the annual Caine Prize for Writing, four of the stories are from Nigeria. This is unprecedented in the history of the organization. According to the ann... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:19:41 PM
LAGOS MORNING SURPRISE It’s a Monday morning in Lagos, after a sustained night rain, and the city – for the very first time – showed an uncommon character the like of which might never be seen again. The sewers had opened u... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Monday, May 13, 2013 1:29:06 PM
ROLLING WITH THE MUSES At the Goethe Institut this evening, to attend the monthly Author Interaction there, there were drinks, and brilliant artists from various fields chatting, arguing, and sharing anecdotes and opinions ... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:15:47 PM
CALLS FOR AUDIO POETRY The following is a mail I received from my friend and publisher Maurice Oliver. Please send him an email if you have an audio poem he might be able to use. ____________________ Hope all goes well. You... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Monday, May 06, 2013 2:46:20 PM
BYE HUNGER! HELLO FOOD! One of the things I miss most about living in America was how easy it was to be lazy. Very often, you might find yourself starving but unwilling to brave the blistering cold outside to get a meal. All... Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0 Category: Art Monday, May 06, 2013 8:35:21 AM
XPERIA’S LAGOS Unless Sony Ericsson makes me an offer I can’t refuse, this is the last time I’ll put a name of their brand on a blog title . This caveat is necessary in case anyone begins to wonder whether I’ve alr... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Friday, May 03, 2013 9:02:23 PM
AN OBSERVATION… That I am not as free, or as eager, as I would be in a foreign land, to whip out my camera at every available instant in order to take a picture. There is a little reticence somewhere the source of wh... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Monday, April 29, 2013 9:56:36 PM
A WEEK IN IGNORANCE It surprised one of my co-workers when, during lunch sometime during the week, I’d mentioned that one of my grouses with the Goodluck Jonathan presidency was his condonement of corruption, citing the ... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:46:56 PM
COLLEGE MEMORIES! MY FIRST FEW WEEKS OF UNIVERSITY IN PICTURES 6:33 pm, September 19, 2007 Just arrived at the airport About to be picked up by the school van and head off for campus. I was so ridiculously excited.. (now I know better but my naive excitement in t... Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0 Category: Art Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:50:00 AM
DOUR MORNING IN BAGA It is 9 am, Lagos, and the dust has settled from automobiles whose tyres grazed the road tar from the early seconds of the breaking day. It is 9am. Workers have settled into their seats and morning ro... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:43:46 AM
LOVE APRIL COLLECTION PREVIEW “OVERSIZED TRIBALISM” Inspired by the world history generations of women and androgyny artworks, the Love April’s collection plays on the mixture of masculinity and femininity. Our exaggerated seam-lines emphasis our cling... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Monday, April 22, 2013 9:16:12 PM
EDUN AND RYAN MCGINLEY AFRICAN ELEPHANT T-SHIRTS FOR WILDAID After taking a look at Edun’s ‘African Shower’ campaign for Spring Summer 2013, Edun and Ryan McGinley introduces their next installment with the limited edition t-shirt for charity. Featuring the Wil... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Monday, April 22, 2013 8:57:15 PM
APARTMENT HUNTING: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG I’ve been looking for a flat to rent in Abuja. My whole living situation since I moved back to Nigeria hasn’t been particularly pleasant and I’m hoping to get my own place and just have some peace. I ... Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0 Category: Art Monday, April 22, 2013 3:49:40 PM
THE FELA RHYMES It caught my eye a couple of years ago, and I haven’t got any satisfactory answer as to their accidental or deliberate inclusion in the structure of the song. Fela is notable for his retention of the ... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:01:41 PM
ADVENTURES OF A CAMERA Once upon a time, a camera – a Canon handheld camera. Two cameras, actually, of the same brand, both purchased in the US. That is where the story begins and stops, except for a few other details: each... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Sunday, April 21, 2013 1:46:39 PM
GOLDMAN SUPPLY DEBUT COLLECTION Goldman Supply Co. is a casual menswear brand based in Lagos, Nigeria. All its products are sourced and supplied locally and their add African print elements to their cotton tees and tanks. Buy them o... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:16:31 PM
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE YET TO BE RELEASED SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 8.0 The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 promised to be a great tablet : letting you edit documents or draw with a pen and even do true multitasking by splitting the screen into two halves and using both to do th... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:45:10 PM
1000TH POST From the distance of idleness when all that needed to be done were viewed and weighed against all that could go wrong, a thousand posts on a blog meant to document an educational trip might have seeme... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:41:57 PM
ANDREA IYAMAH RELEASES 2013 SWIMWEAR COLLECTION – “NKWOR” Andrea Iyamah presents its 2013 swimwear collection showing a mixture of daring colours, prints, pastels and unique cuts. The collection was inspired by the piercing fun personality of the designer’... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Sunday, April 14, 2013 11:56:13 AM
FUELING POVERTY – THE VIDEO! This short documentary on Nigeria, said to “address the serious issue of corruption in governance” just made news by being banned by the Nigerian Film and Censors Board. I’d never heard of it until to... Gist Source: ktravula Category: Art Saturday, April 13, 2013 11:53:55 AM
EVER WONDERED WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNTS AFTER YOUR DEATH? GOOGLE GIVES YOU CONTROL What will happen to your Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google+ accounts after you die? That’s probably not something you really want to think about, but as more and more of our data now lives onlin... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Friday, April 12, 2013 12:13:27 PM
MAIL & GUARDIAN SA INTERVIEWS LUCILLA BOOYZEN, THE FOUNDER OF SOUTH AFRICAN FASHION WEEK (SAFW) Lucilla Booyzen, the founder of South African Fashion Week (SAFW), which was launched in 1996, never had any formal training in fashion but grew up in a family where chic and elegance were lifestyle f... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Friday, April 12, 2013 12:05:04 PM
AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON LAUNCHES CONCESSION STORE, STUDIO 29, 14TH APRIL 2013 Studio 29 boutique, an extension of the highly successful Africa Fashion Week London (AFWL) brand is set to open its doors to Lagos fashionistas from Sunday 14th April 2013. The first of a series of ... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Friday, April 12, 2013 11:57:05 AM
SUPPORT BRITISH GAY WEB SERIES IN THE DEEP WRITTEN BY JOSEPH ADESUNLOYE AND JOY GHARORO AKPOJOTOR DreamCoat Productions is proud to bring In The Deep a web series about four fun-loving best friends who live in the heart of East London, each harbouring secrets of their own. This is not just anothe... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:11:59 PM
KING HAKBAL URBAN ROYALE COLLECTION Hakeem Balogun’s King Hakbal label’s ethos is all about sartorial elegance, as seen in this collection ……from blue to red pieces , yellow and leopard print, this collection looks to celebrate the you... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:06:26 PM
ALLEN & FIFTH SPRING/SUMMER 2013 COLLECTION Allen and Fifth is a Nigerian/ African Inspired Urban Lifestyle apparel Company whose goal is to promote Nigerian/African pop culture, using the tee shirt as a canvas. The Spring/Summer 2013 Collectio... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:01:09 PM
BUSINESS OF FASHION: JUMIA CO-FOUNDERS FEATURED IN FORBES AFRICA MAGAZINE, ANNOUNCE 3 ADDITIONAL STORES ACROSS NIGERIA. On the trail of successes they have achieved as one of the pioneers of online retail in Nigeria, co-founders of Jumia , Raphael Afaedor and Tunde Kehinde have been featured in April’s edition of Forbe... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:36:39 PM
TECH/GADGETS: SMART WATCHES THE WAY FORWARD? With the smartphone revolution almost over, the advent of wearable technology like the Google glass and smart watches, are on the rise. Smartphones replaced the need to carry individual devices for d... Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy Category: Art Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:09:47 PM

HELLO CALABAR!
I’m in Calabar for a bit! My hotel is super nice! And I already met one of my blog readers!!! Hi Calabar Sugabelly followers!!! Your home city rocks!! Migwo?...
Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0
Category: Art Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:54:11 AM

THE CHILDREN OF “BAYAN LAYI”
As part of my five-week blogathon on the five shortlisted stories in the 2013 Caine Prize, I present some thoughts on the first story: Elnathan John’s Bayan Layi, first published at http://www.percont...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:12:31 PM

THE 2013 CAINE PRIZE SHORTLIST
Out of this year’s five shortlisted stories for the annual Caine Prize for Writing, four of the stories are from Nigeria. This is unprecedented in the history of the organization. According to the ann...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:19:41 PM

LAGOS MORNING SURPRISE
It’s a Monday morning in Lagos, after a sustained night rain, and the city – for the very first time – showed an uncommon character the like of which might never be seen again. The sewers had opened u...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Monday, May 13, 2013 1:29:06 PM

ROLLING WITH THE MUSES
At the Goethe Institut this evening, to attend the monthly Author Interaction there, there were drinks, and brilliant artists from various fields chatting, arguing, and sharing anecdotes and opinions ...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:15:47 PM

CALLS FOR AUDIO POETRY
The following is a mail I received from my friend and publisher Maurice Oliver. Please send him an email if you have an audio poem he might be able to use. ____________________ Hope all goes well. You...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Monday, May 06, 2013 2:46:20 PM

BYE HUNGER! HELLO FOOD!
One of the things I miss most about living in America was how easy it was to be lazy. Very often, you might find yourself starving but unwilling to brave the blistering cold outside to get a meal. All...
Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0
Category: Art Monday, May 06, 2013 8:35:21 AM

XPERIA’S LAGOS
Unless Sony Ericsson makes me an offer I can’t refuse, this is the last time I’ll put a name of their brand on a blog title . This caveat is necessary in case anyone begins to wonder whether I’ve alr...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Friday, May 03, 2013 9:02:23 PM

AN OBSERVATION…
That I am not as free, or as eager, as I would be in a foreign land, to whip out my camera at every available instant in order to take a picture. There is a little reticence somewhere the source of wh...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Monday, April 29, 2013 9:56:36 PM

A WEEK IN IGNORANCE
It surprised one of my co-workers when, during lunch sometime during the week, I’d mentioned that one of my grouses with the Goodluck Jonathan presidency was his condonement of corruption, citing the ...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:46:56 PM

COLLEGE MEMORIES! MY FIRST FEW WEEKS OF UNIVERSITY IN PICTURES
6:33 pm, September 19, 2007 Just arrived at the airport About to be picked up by the school van and head off for campus. I was so ridiculously excited.. (now I know better but my naive excitement in t...
Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0
Category: Art Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:50:00 AM

DOUR MORNING IN BAGA
It is 9 am, Lagos, and the dust has settled from automobiles whose tyres grazed the road tar from the early seconds of the breaking day. It is 9am. Workers have settled into their seats and morning ro...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:43:46 AM

LOVE APRIL COLLECTION PREVIEW “OVERSIZED TRIBALISM”
Inspired by the world history generations of women and androgyny artworks, the Love April’s collection plays on the mixture of masculinity and femininity. Our exaggerated seam-lines emphasis our cling...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Monday, April 22, 2013 9:16:12 PM

EDUN AND RYAN MCGINLEY AFRICAN ELEPHANT T-SHIRTS FOR WILDAID
After taking a look at Edun’s ‘African Shower’ campaign for Spring Summer 2013, Edun and Ryan McGinley introduces their next installment with the limited edition t-shirt for charity. Featuring the Wil...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Monday, April 22, 2013 8:57:15 PM

APARTMENT HUNTING: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
I’ve been looking for a flat to rent in Abuja. My whole living situation since I moved back to Nigeria hasn’t been particularly pleasant and I’m hoping to get my own place and just have some peace. I ...
Gist Source: Sugabelly 2.0
Category: Art Monday, April 22, 2013 3:49:40 PM

THE FELA RHYMES
It caught my eye a couple of years ago, and I haven’t got any satisfactory answer as to their accidental or deliberate inclusion in the structure of the song. Fela is notable for his retention of the ...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:01:41 PM

ADVENTURES OF A CAMERA
Once upon a time, a camera – a Canon handheld camera. Two cameras, actually, of the same brand, both purchased in the US. That is where the story begins and stops, except for a few other details: each...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Sunday, April 21, 2013 1:46:39 PM

GOLDMAN SUPPLY DEBUT COLLECTION
Goldman Supply Co. is a casual menswear brand based in Lagos, Nigeria. All its products are sourced and supplied locally and their add African print elements to their cotton tees and tanks. Buy them o...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:16:31 PM

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE YET TO BE RELEASED SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 8.0
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 promised to be a great tablet : letting you edit documents or draw with a pen and even do true multitasking by splitting the screen into two halves and using both to do th...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:45:10 PM

1000TH POST
From the distance of idleness when all that needed to be done were viewed and weighed against all that could go wrong, a thousand posts on a blog meant to document an educational trip might have seeme...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:41:57 PM

ANDREA IYAMAH RELEASES 2013 SWIMWEAR COLLECTION – “NKWOR”
Andrea Iyamah presents its 2013 swimwear collection showing a mixture of daring colours, prints, pastels and unique cuts. The collection was inspired by the piercing fun personality of the designer’...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Sunday, April 14, 2013 11:56:13 AM

FUELING POVERTY – THE VIDEO!
This short documentary on Nigeria, said to “address the serious issue of corruption in governance” just made news by being banned by the Nigerian Film and Censors Board. I’d never heard of it until to...
Gist Source: ktravula
Category: Art Saturday, April 13, 2013 11:53:55 AM

EVER WONDERED WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNTS AFTER YOUR DEATH? GOOGLE GIVES YOU CONTROL
What will happen to your Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google+ accounts after you die? That’s probably not something you really want to think about, but as more and more of our data now lives onlin...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Friday, April 12, 2013 12:13:27 PM

MAIL & GUARDIAN SA INTERVIEWS LUCILLA BOOYZEN, THE FOUNDER OF SOUTH AFRICAN FASHION WEEK (SAFW)
Lucilla Booyzen, the founder of South African Fashion Week (SAFW), which was launched in 1996, never had any formal training in fashion but grew up in a family where chic and elegance were lifestyle f...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Friday, April 12, 2013 12:05:04 PM

AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON LAUNCHES CONCESSION STORE, STUDIO 29, 14TH APRIL 2013
Studio 29 boutique, an extension of the highly successful Africa Fashion Week London (AFWL) brand is set to open its doors to Lagos fashionistas from Sunday 14th April 2013. The first of a series of ...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Friday, April 12, 2013 11:57:05 AM

SUPPORT BRITISH GAY WEB SERIES IN THE DEEP WRITTEN BY JOSEPH ADESUNLOYE AND JOY GHARORO AKPOJOTOR
DreamCoat Productions is proud to bring In The Deep a web series about four fun-loving best friends who live in the heart of East London, each harbouring secrets of their own. This is not just anothe...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:11:59 PM

KING HAKBAL URBAN ROYALE COLLECTION
Hakeem Balogun’s King Hakbal label’s ethos is all about sartorial elegance, as seen in this collection ……from blue to red pieces , yellow and leopard print, this collection looks to celebrate the you...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:06:26 PM

ALLEN & FIFTH SPRING/SUMMER 2013 COLLECTION
Allen and Fifth is a Nigerian/ African Inspired Urban Lifestyle apparel Company whose goal is to promote Nigerian/African pop culture, using the tee shirt as a canvas. The Spring/Summer 2013 Collectio...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:01:09 PM

BUSINESS OF FASHION: JUMIA CO-FOUNDERS FEATURED IN FORBES AFRICA MAGAZINE, ANNOUNCE 3 ADDITIONAL STORES ACROSS NIGERIA.
On the trail of successes they have achieved as one of the pioneers of online retail in Nigeria, co-founders of Jumia , Raphael Afaedor and Tunde Kehinde have been featured in April’s edition of Forbe...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:36:39 PM

TECH/GADGETS: SMART WATCHES THE WAY FORWARD?
With the smartphone revolution almost over, the advent of wearable technology like the Google glass and smart watches, are on the rise. Smartphones replaced the need to carry individual devices for d...
Gist Source: One Nigerian Boy
Category: Art Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:09:47 PM

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